Toy car.



A. B, KIDDER.

TOY CAR.

APPLlc/moN man MAR.9.1916.

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ARTHUR B. KIDDEB, 0F CANTON, OHIO.

TOY GAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1st, 1916.

Application mea Maren 9, 1916. serial No. 83,040.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. KIDDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Toy Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in toy cars and has more especial reference to a device of this character composed of sheet metal stamped and formed as hereinafter described.

The object of this invention is to provide a toy oar or similar vehicle composed of sheet metal which may be easily manufactured and which when complete is a correct representation of a railway car.

A further object is the provision of a car such as referred to, in which the body of the car is formed-of two sheets of metal.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, size and minor details of construction may be rmade within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the finished car. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the floor, side and end walls of the car are stamped. Fig. 3 is a section upon an enlarged scale on the line 33, Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The blank, shown in Fig. 2, is preferably of sheet metal and comprises the floor portion 1, the side walls 2 2, which are shaped by bending the blank on the dotted lines 3 8, the end portions 1 -4 upon the eX- tremities of each of the side portions 2, said end portions being shaped by bending the blank upon the lines 5 and the truck portions 6 which are cut out of the floor portion and bent downwardly upon the dotted lines 7, said truck portions being provided with embossed representations of wheels 8. Window openings 9 are cut out of the side walls and door openings 10 are cut therefrom near each extremity thereof, the stair portions 11 and forming grooves adapted to receive the in-turned iianges 15, which are provided along the lower edges of the side walls 16 of the ventilator top 17. The side walls 16 of the ventilator top are preferably provided with a series of apertures 16L having the semblance of the ordinary ventilators in use upon railway cars. As best shown in Fig. 3 .the upper portions of the side walls 2 are bent toward each other upon a curve forming the curved roof 18.

Each of the end portions 4 is out out at 19 forming one-half of the end door opening 20, the extensions 21 upon said end portions overlapping as shown at 22 and the projections 23 formed upon opposite ends of the ventilator top being bent downwardly over the lapped extensions 21, the three thicknesses of metal being spot welded together at X.

If it is desired to so construct the car that it may be operated upon the ordinary construction of toy railway track an axle 24 carrying a pair of flanged wheels 25 may be journaled in the truck portions 6 thus giving the appearance of a six wheeled truck with only two wheels in each truck.

It will of course be understood that observation cars, baggage or mail cars and toy locomotives may-also be constructed in the same manner as the coaches above described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Although the drawings and above specication disclose the best mode in which I have contemplated embodying my invention I desire to be not limited to the details of such disclosure, for, in the further practical application of my invention, many changes in form and construction may be made, as circumstances require or experience suggests, without departing from the spirit of the invention within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A toy vehicle of the character described comprising a single sheet of metal forming the floor of the vehicle portions bent up therefrom to form the side walls and a portion of the roof, portions bent back from said side walls to form the end walls,

portions bent down from said side walls to form the steps, portions turned down from said floor to form the trucks and a ventilator top composed of a single sheet of metal connected to the roof of said vehicle.

2. A toy vehicle I" the character described comprising a single sheet of metal forming the floor and platforms oi' the vehicle, portions bent up therefrom to form the sides and a portion of the roof, portions bent back from said side portions to form the ends of the vehicle, said side portions being provided -with door openings7 portions bent down Copies of this patent may be obtained for the floor, portions bent up therefrom to form the sides and roof of the vehicle, portions bent back from said sides to form the ends of the vehicle, extensions upon the end portions adapted to overlap, portions cut out from said floor and bent down to form trucks, back turned flanges formed upon the edges of the roof portion, a ventilatorl top formed of a single Sheet, inturned flanges upon 4said ventilator top adapted to be received beneath the back turned flanges upon the roof, downwardly disposed projections provided upon the extremities of said ventilator top and means for connecting said downwardly .disposed projections and the overlapped extensions upon said end portions.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ARTHUR B. KIDDER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

